Carolyn Burke (born March 29, 1940) is an Australian-born American writer, translator, and author of four biographies. Her first was a life of the English poet Mina Loy, published in 1996 and reprinted in 2021. She has also written books about the American photographer Lee Miller, the French chanteuse Edith Piaf, and the interwoven lives of four iconic figures of American art, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Paul Strand, and Rebecca Salsbury.
Books in order of publication:
Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. – 1996
Lee Miller: A Life. Alfred Knopf. – 2006
No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf. Alfred Knopf. – 2011
Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury. Alfred Knopf. – 2019
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